"The Five Points was the toughest street corner……" — Martin Scorsese
"The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London."
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133 Quotes by Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese has 133 quotes on this site.
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I'm in a different chapter of my life. As time goes by and I grow older, I find that I…
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Movies touch our hearts, and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to other…
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If you’re looking for the origins of film culture in America, look no further than Amos Vogel.
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Orson Welles was a force of nature, who just came in and wiped the slate clean. And Citizen Kane is…
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There are movies that change the whole way in which films are made, like Klute, where Gordon Willis’s photography on…
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I'm often asked by younger filmmakers, 'Why do I need to look at old movies?' I've made a number of…
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The storyboard for me is the way to visualise the entire movie in advance,
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I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.
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We're face-to-face with images all the time in a way that we never have been before. Young people need to…
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An interviewer once asked me to discuss my collaboration with Elmer Bernstein, and precisely why I chose to work with…
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My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.
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The only thing I really wanted was the freedom to be able to get what I want on film. I’ve…
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More Charles Quotes
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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
— Margaret Atwood
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Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.
— Peter Ackroyd
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Harry Reid is not funny; he's creepy. Nancy Pelosi is creepy. Charles Schumer is sneaky and creepy.
— Lewis Black
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I don't see myself as a great discoverer of artists, like Charles Saatchi.
— Eli Broad
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For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth…
— Bill Bryson
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I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over…
— Bill Bryson
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I'm the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood…
— Nicolas Cage
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Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just…
— Ray Charles
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Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.
— Madonna Ciccone
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I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane,…
— Eric Clapton
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When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in…
— Maya Angelou
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